WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 He's also very observant too, right? 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:10.840 I mean, he's looking out, even though we're together, he looks from outside in on this 3 00:00:10.840 --> 00:00:17.640 and he was saying, can you have been taking care of your mom ever since we've been together? 4 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:18.640 Wow. 5 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:23.920 And, you know, I think I was telling you, Brenda, like the art of letting go and that. 6 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:29.720 And I would just like to say, um, because today's talking about expanding your capacity 7 00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:31.920 and being that overwhelmed. 8 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:37.280 And I'll tell you, I've went through so much, especially I would say in the last, the last 9 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:45.200 year, but in the last eight months of overwhelm and just feel, you know, to capacity. 10 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:52.640 And I talk about that with what I do in the, you know, the strong one, being that strong 11 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.080 woman, um, that kind of sweeps everything under the rug. 12 00:00:57.080 --> 00:00:59.560 I've done it my whole life. 13 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:04.400 And so I just had to share that because I feel, thank you for sharing that. 14 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:05.400 My goodness. 15 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.160 I know so many of us relate on so many levels. 16 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:10.920 I started the recording early. 17 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:17.880 Those of you tuning in, this is the prosper power hour, but Kim was sharing a praise report. 18 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:24.280 She's been a full-time caretaker for her mother for many, many years and, um, just 19 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.840 been a amazing, dedicated daughter. 20 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:34.440 And it looks like we are praising that she has found a home and she, um, she prayed and 21 00:01:34.440 --> 00:01:38.760 she did a war room type prayer, uh, to Jesus. 22 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:44.880 And the next day the mom was accepting and, um, the husband is validating. 23 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:47.640 And I just, I love it. 24 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:54.200 As you were speaking about that prayer, Kim, have you all seen the movie war room? 25 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:55.520 Have you all seen it? 26 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:58.480 If you haven't seen it, it's on Netflix. 27 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:02.680 It's going to be taken down pretty quick, but if you haven't seen it, have you seen 28 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:03.680 it Kim? 29 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:04.680 Yes. 30 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:05.680 Okay. 31 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:06.680 Priscilla Shire. 32 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:07.680 Yes. 33 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:08.680 Yes. 34 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.920 So, um, I had Alicia, the homeless gal that lives in my front yard. 35 00:02:12.920 --> 00:02:20.520 Um, I had her for dinner and I watched it with her and, um, last night. 36 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:27.080 And there's this point where in the movie where she does that kind of prayer, she just 37 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:31.880 goes after it and she is just chasing the enemy out of her house. 38 00:02:31.880 --> 00:02:37.720 She is talking to God and she is saying from now on, and she reclaimed her husband. 39 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:39.340 She reclaimed her daughter. 40 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:40.340 She reclaimed her life. 41 00:02:40.340 --> 00:02:45.940 Like, and it's just a powerful, powerful prayer that she does that scene in the movie. 42 00:02:45.940 --> 00:02:48.660 You could probably like Google on YouTube. 43 00:02:48.660 --> 00:02:51.700 I'm sure that scene is, is easy to find. 44 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:58.340 Um, but it reminds me of you and looking at that picture of Jesus and you know, those 45 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:01.160 are, those are prayers of certainty. 46 00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:02.340 Those are prayers of faith. 47 00:03:02.340 --> 00:03:06.420 Those are prayers of declaration and you're right. 48 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:12.980 So often we get stuck in very wishy washy kind of prayers of, Oh God, if it's your will 49 00:03:12.980 --> 00:03:17.740 and please help me with this and I would really love it if, and it's like these half in half 50 00:03:17.740 --> 00:03:19.020 out. 51 00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:24.940 And for what we're doing today with James chapter one, Kim, um, your story is like the 52 00:03:24.940 --> 00:03:32.180 perfect lead in and, um, you're such a blessing and I'm praising God with you. 53 00:03:32.180 --> 00:03:35.100 You're going into this new season and I just honor. 54 00:03:35.100 --> 00:03:36.980 I honor your, your love. 55 00:03:36.980 --> 00:03:38.660 I honor your courage. 56 00:03:38.660 --> 00:03:42.660 I honor your vulnerability, willing to share that with us. 57 00:03:42.660 --> 00:03:46.020 Um, and I'm, I'm excited for your mom. 58 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:53.740 I think this is also going to be really powerfully blessing and, and, and stimulating new relationships 59 00:03:53.740 --> 00:03:55.540 and new learning. 60 00:03:55.540 --> 00:03:59.780 And it's actually, I believe going to be so good for her. 61 00:03:59.780 --> 00:04:06.420 And I love that it's Valentine's day and I love that, um, you and your husband get 62 00:04:06.420 --> 00:04:11.540 to celebrate a new season and what we're going to be praying for that. 63 00:04:11.540 --> 00:04:13.860 What a beautiful blessing. 64 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:17.820 So thank you for sharing that, that praise report. 65 00:04:17.820 --> 00:04:24.500 Um, we have Christie on the line and you know, we've all been praying for, for, uh, Christie 66 00:04:24.500 --> 00:04:31.340 with, um, the, the breast cancer that's disappearing and that God is moving and she's driving as 67 00:04:31.340 --> 00:04:35.860 she's listening in here and she has her MRI. 68 00:04:35.860 --> 00:04:42.420 And so, um, be joining with her in, in prayer that it's done. 69 00:04:42.420 --> 00:04:43.420 It's clear. 70 00:04:43.420 --> 00:04:44.620 It's, it's over. 71 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:46.220 So lift up Christie. 72 00:04:46.220 --> 00:04:47.500 She is listening to us. 73 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:48.500 She's driving. 74 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:53.220 Um, anybody else, praise reports, prayer requests. 75 00:04:53.220 --> 00:05:00.020 We're continuing to pray for a lens wrist and she got denied for physical therapy. 76 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:10.080 She's contesting that, and so pray for everything that is needed, that God will supply the complete 77 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:15.440 and total healing. It might be from a completely different source. It might be from just a straight 78 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:25.200 up miracle, but we cover her wrist. We cover Elen with that kind of same type of prayer, 79 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:32.720 same for Christy, that same kind of prayer. Anybody else? Brenda, this is Charla. Hi, 80 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:41.040 Charla. I'm unable to be on camera, but I'm going to do a praise and prayer. My little 81 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:45.920 Adelita, my little 12-year-old granddaughter, got out of the hospital yesterday after 82 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:52.640 two and a half weeks. She got out. She came home yesterday, and I don't know much. I mean, 83 00:05:53.040 --> 00:06:00.480 it was in a kind of sudden, and that's awesome. She's a trooper more than you can imagine. But 84 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.080 anyway, the family needs prayers. I mean, they were in dire straits before all that, 85 00:06:04.080 --> 00:06:08.960 and mom hadn't been able to work. So it's my son Austin and his little new family. 86 00:06:09.760 --> 00:06:17.760 Love it. Thank you for sharing. So we're continuing to pray for Adelita, and we are continuing to pray 87 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:21.520 for Charla's son. Tell me his name again. 88 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:27.920 Austin. Yeah, continuing to pray for Austin. Actually, I would like it for all three of my 89 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:34.240 kids are just in dire straits. This is the way the world is right now. It just has got them in 90 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:42.240 spiraling circles of debt. And anyway, Austin, Tyler, and Alyssa, my three kids are just 91 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:49.920 the wolf kids. Okay. Okay. You got it. Absolutely. Abundance is everywhere. I mean, 92 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:57.040 there's no lack, but the distribution has gotten skewed. Okay. Thanks. I'm going off. 93 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:05.040 Yeah. You know, if you guys can lift up Derek and my son, and he's going through the hardest time, 94 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.920 and what's beautiful is that he's pressing into God and surrendering and reading his Bible, 95 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:17.760 which is just incredible. That's new development. So it's so good. He has an online business, 96 00:07:17.760 --> 00:07:23.600 and he's been very, very successful as a streetwear designer. And he has been very 97 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:29.680 successful with it for years. And he had hired someone to help. And that person 98 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:38.480 was burning the screen printing so that the majority of what went out, it rips in the wash. 99 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:45.440 And so he had to fire this guy because he's given him many chances. And he had to come up with the 100 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:52.240 money to buy the replacements for so many. And these are like $50 sweatshirt kind of things. He 101 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:59.680 had to get that, and he didn't have the money for that. And he got the new order, and it's actually 102 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:05.600 a problem with the manufacturer. Like you touch, these are high grade, you touch the sweatshirt, 103 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:15.120 and they just rip, they just fall apart. And so like all that he just got, which has already been 104 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:22.400 paid for and ordered by people that they're upset online. And so just pray for him to 105 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:29.280 get through all of this. Same kind of thing, what you're saying, Charlotte, he's being pressed 106 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:35.840 and stretched. And I think what I'm sharing today in James chapter one, I've been sharing 107 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:43.360 with him. And for all of us going through anything like that, we'll continue. We'll continue to pray 108 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:47.040 for Natalie. Oh, go ahead, Natalie, you're on your way to Africa. 109 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:52.480 Yeah, I am on my way to Africa. So pray for that. But and I think I don't know what this is with 110 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:57.520 sons, but both of my sons, so my oldest one that had the best. So first of all, my grandson, 111 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:06.800 his surgery went well. And then my oldest son is he's been he's been out of he was in finance, 112 00:09:06.800 --> 00:09:13.360 and he's been looking for work since, oh, my God, I don't know how long. And so I've been having to, 113 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:19.440 to kind of help out because he has custody of his son. And so and he's, he's really trying to, 114 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:26.000 to persevere. But he's also been, you know, stretched, pushed, pulled, and all many in all 115 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.840 those many places, he did get an offer. The challenge is because he's been off for so long, 116 00:09:31.920 --> 00:09:38.880 his credit is not pristine. And so we just were praying that the clearance comes through for that 117 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:44.080 position. And it is the right position. Yeah, and they're and they do well by him. And he does well 118 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:49.760 by them. Yeah. And then with my other son, Bruce, he's the one that has the sciatica in the back, 119 00:09:49.760 --> 00:09:55.600 and he's having a surgery. They had it scheduled for the 27th. But you know, mom got involved with 120 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.840 the Lord. We got God involved in it. And so his surgery is 121 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.880 actually Friday, I won't be here. Um, you know, but I have a team of people, everybody's calling 122 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:12.160 to see what their assignment was, there is because they know how, you know, I take, I work with my 123 00:10:12.160 --> 00:10:19.440 children very well anyway. And so, so my prayer is that his surgery not only goes phenomenally 124 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:26.800 and it's excellent, but it relieves the pain and he can be back to himself. I was with him last 125 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:33.360 night and I felt so bad because he's, he's, he's having all of these spasms in his legs and in his 126 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.120 hip and it's all this other kind of stuff. And it's just, it's just, it's really hard. So he 127 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:44.000 hasn't been able to work in almost four weeks and he is self-employed and he is, um, a yoga 128 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:49.360 instructor. So, and a teacher and all this kind of stuff. So, so his name is Bruce and the other 129 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:58.800 name is Anthony. So yeah, please. Okay. Okay. Um, so all of you, it's, it, it looks like this is a 130 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:03.760 week. I mean, every week is, but it looks like this is a week for us all to really press in 131 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:09.600 for our prosper sisters here. So if you didn't write it down, write it down. You're praying for 132 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:17.120 Kim's mom and for Kim, as she makes this transition, you're praying for Charla's boys and for 133 00:11:17.760 --> 00:11:24.720 Austin and, and little Adelita that just got out of the hospital. You're praying for Elen, 134 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:31.760 that's spelled with an H, um, for her wrist. Uh, praying for Christy as she's on her way right now 135 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:38.720 for the MRI that this breast cancer is over and done and decimated, never to return, go to the 136 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:45.760 pit of hell. My son, Derek, as he goes through these hard financial challenges and all that's 137 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:53.200 happening that he just grows in capacity in the Lord and overcomes this for, for Natalie on her 138 00:11:53.200 --> 00:12:01.680 way to Africa for her oldest son, Anthony, um, and for Bruce with the surgery on Friday and relief 139 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:09.360 of the pain. Um, and so, and if I forgot anything, the Lord knows, but please actually take that 140 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:17.600 seriously this week, the power of us two or more gathered and praying, it shifts, it just shifts 141 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:25.040 things. And, um, what a privilege, what a privilege that we get to unite like this. And maybe be a 142 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:33.520 little bossy. I love it, Kim. If you haven't watched War Room, it's a great one to go back and watch 143 00:12:33.520 --> 00:12:42.560 and those kind of War Room prayers, my goodness, the things that changed with those prayers. And I 144 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:48.880 know it's a movie, but it's based on truth. And so if you haven't watched the movie, maybe that'll 145 00:12:48.880 --> 00:12:56.800 keep it on Netflix longer. Watch it, watch it with your family, recommend it to people. Okay. Um, 146 00:12:56.880 --> 00:13:04.240 before we run out of time, well, let's keep going. So today you probably got the notes. We 147 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:13.360 are focusing on a unique promise. It's a promise when we're in the middle of trial. So how 148 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:19.200 divine is that for this week with everything that we just talked about? Like what a setup, 149 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:28.160 right? And so it's the promise in the trial. And, you know, God's been teaching me about capacity. 150 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:34.400 And so it's really about expanding capacity, understanding how God is doing that without 151 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:43.920 losing peace. Right. And, um, so we're going to be in James chapter one, and we're going to read it 152 00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:50.480 in kind of two chunks. First, we're going to read verses two through four, and then we're going to 153 00:13:50.480 --> 00:14:00.480 come back to one more. And I've got a couple translations here, but who's got James chapter one? 154 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:07.360 Tell us what translation and maybe read it out loud if you can. James chapter one, verses two 155 00:14:07.920 --> 00:14:12.480 through four. And I want to tell you a little about something about James that you may or may 156 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:18.480 not know. The actual name of that book is not supposed to be James. It got changed. It's actually 157 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:26.640 Jacob. And you can research this. And Jacob was Jesus's brother. And we believe that he received 158 00:14:26.640 --> 00:14:37.680 Christ after Jesus died and rose again. And, um, Jacob, um, this is one of the earliest letters to 159 00:14:37.680 --> 00:14:43.040 the Christians. This and Galatians are the two earliest. We're looking at just like 40 years 160 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:52.480 after Christ. So it's, it's, it's one of the, you know, most amazing. And it's actually the book of 161 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:57.920 James is actually looked at as like, it's a book of wisdom. It's like the book of Proverbs in the 162 00:14:57.920 --> 00:14:59.760 New Testament. And. 163 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.840 So just a little backup about that. 164 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.480 And so, isn't that interesting? 165 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.240 The brother of Jesus. 166 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.040 And can you imagine growing up 167 00:15:08.040 --> 00:15:09.800 and being with the Lord and Savior, 168 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:12.880 not knowing that until after he died and rose again. 169 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:14.440 I mean, what an interesting thought 170 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.040 to even think about that. 171 00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:19.760 But he did receive, he did go on to be a church leader. 172 00:15:21.640 --> 00:15:24.280 He also was killed. 173 00:15:24.280 --> 00:15:28.240 And so anyway, that being said, 174 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:32.760 when we look at James chapter one that he opens with, 175 00:15:33.680 --> 00:15:35.920 it just gives it some more depth 176 00:15:35.920 --> 00:15:38.560 to understand who's writing this. 177 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:43.560 So James chapter one, verses two through four. 178 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.400 Somebody wanna read that? 179 00:15:46.400 --> 00:15:48.200 And tell us what translation. 180 00:15:49.100 --> 00:15:51.600 I have the Passion Translation. 181 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:52.980 Okay, awesome. 182 00:15:52.980 --> 00:15:57.760 And it says, my fellow believers, 183 00:15:57.800 --> 00:16:02.280 when it seems as though you are facing nothing 184 00:16:02.280 --> 00:16:07.280 but difficulties, see it as an invitation 185 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:12.360 or an invitation opportunity 186 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:17.360 to experience the greatest joy that you can. 187 00:16:18.400 --> 00:16:23.400 For you know that what your faith is, 188 00:16:24.040 --> 00:16:26.640 what your faith is, oh, I'm sorry. 189 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:33.060 For you know that your faith is, 190 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.280 I'm looking at that word there. 191 00:16:36.280 --> 00:16:38.440 I have it too marked. 192 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.080 Tested, excuse me. 193 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:45.080 It sets up in you the power of an endurance 194 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:51.720 and that as your endurance grows even stronger, 195 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.440 it will release perfection into every part of your being 196 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:02.440 until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking. 197 00:17:02.680 --> 00:17:04.160 Just think about that. 198 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.680 These trials are gonna create in you 199 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:15.839 to bring you to the place that you are lacking nothing. 200 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:17.720 I mean, just think about that. 201 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:20.800 Lacking nothing. 202 00:17:21.800 --> 00:17:23.280 And so I love it, Kim. 203 00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:24.280 Yours is like mine. 204 00:17:24.280 --> 00:17:25.960 It gets so marked up and you can't read it. 205 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:26.940 Is that funny? 206 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:29.040 But when you look at it, 207 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:31.280 and when he says when it seems as though 208 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:33.840 you're facing nothing but difficulties, 209 00:17:33.840 --> 00:17:36.640 you know those times when it just like everywhere I look, 210 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.200 there's a difficulty, there's a challenge, you know? 211 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.320 And I only told you like a smidgen of my son's challenges. 212 00:17:42.320 --> 00:17:43.880 It's like everywhere he looks, 213 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:45.680 there's a challenge right now, right? 214 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.680 And here it says when it seems as though 215 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:52.120 you're facing nothing but difficulties, see it. 216 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.440 Remember, we get to choose how we perceive something, 217 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.960 how we see it, how we frame it, the meaning we attach. 218 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.480 So it says when it seems, you get that? 219 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.360 The illusion. 220 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:07.760 When it seems as though you're facing 221 00:18:07.760 --> 00:18:10.880 nothing but difficulties, see it. 222 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.880 Choose to see it as an invaluable opportunity. 223 00:18:17.760 --> 00:18:20.360 So imagine that everywhere you look your trials 224 00:18:20.360 --> 00:18:25.120 and you get to choose to see it as an invaluable opportunity, 225 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:29.760 look at this, to experience the greatest joy that you can. 226 00:18:29.760 --> 00:18:31.440 So we all want joy. 227 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:33.400 Joy is the highest frequency. 228 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:35.120 We want to experience joy. 229 00:18:35.120 --> 00:18:37.680 The joy of the Lord is my strength. 230 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.320 And the way that we get to experience the highest joy 231 00:18:41.320 --> 00:18:44.820 is the way that we see our trials. 232 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:46.740 This is so profound. 233 00:18:46.740 --> 00:18:50.340 When you just stop for a second, it's so profound. 234 00:18:50.340 --> 00:18:54.580 And it says, and then it explains why, right? 235 00:18:54.580 --> 00:18:55.420 Because I'm serious. 236 00:18:55.420 --> 00:18:57.580 When I used to read this when I was younger, 237 00:18:57.580 --> 00:18:59.180 count it all joy, my brethren, 238 00:18:59.180 --> 00:19:01.100 when you experience diverse trials. 239 00:19:01.100 --> 00:19:02.780 I was like, is this guy on drugs? 240 00:19:02.780 --> 00:19:04.460 Oh yeah, I'm going to throw a party 241 00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:06.940 because I'm having a hard times, right? 242 00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:08.900 Like what is wrong with him? 243 00:19:08.900 --> 00:19:12.380 But he explains it for you know that 244 00:19:12.380 --> 00:19:14.620 when your faith is tested, 245 00:19:15.380 --> 00:19:17.420 like Kim, your faith kept getting stretched 246 00:19:17.420 --> 00:19:19.340 and stretched and stretched and stretched. 247 00:19:19.340 --> 00:19:20.620 She said, it's enough. 248 00:19:20.620 --> 00:19:22.580 My faith is overflowing. 249 00:19:22.580 --> 00:19:25.100 And, right? 250 00:19:25.100 --> 00:19:29.420 You come with a bold kind of war room prayer. 251 00:19:29.420 --> 00:19:32.540 So for you know that when your faith is tested, 252 00:19:32.540 --> 00:19:37.180 it stirs up in you the power of endurance, right? 253 00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:41.540 And that this endurance grows even stronger. 254 00:19:41.580 --> 00:19:45.780 It releases perfection into every part of your being 255 00:19:45.780 --> 00:19:47.980 until there's nothing missing. 256 00:19:47.980 --> 00:19:50.860 Nothing lacking. 257 00:19:50.860 --> 00:19:53.260 I would say that in that, 258 00:19:53.260 --> 00:19:57.420 what I heard being spoken to me is the word chutes. 259 00:19:57.420 --> 00:19:58.260 Yes. 260 00:19:58.260 --> 00:19:59.100 At least, right? 261 00:19:59.100 --> 00:19:59.940 Because it's not. 262 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.720 that it's given to us. Yes. It's saying that we have to choose in order for the next steps 263 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:17.080 to happen. The release. So good. All of that. And I think that's so important that word 264 00:20:17.080 --> 00:20:25.520 you use it so fondly and it just hit me really hard. I'm so glad you shared that. It is your 265 00:20:25.520 --> 00:20:34.480 God-given ability to choose. I think is one of the very most important because you so 266 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:38.400 Jesus said, hey in the world, there's going to be trials. This is just natural law. This 267 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:44.760 is what's happening. God's not doing it to you. It's there's going to be trials. Okay, 268 00:20:44.760 --> 00:20:56.560 but it says in the world, you'll have trials. Okay, we get to choose the meaning we attach. 269 00:20:56.560 --> 00:21:07.520 We get to choose the our words, our thoughts, our actions. We get to choose. Do we become 270 00:21:07.520 --> 00:21:14.640 better or bitter? Right? Do we grow in our faith in our capacity or do we collapse our 271 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:20.480 faith? Right? And so it literally is like weightlifting. It's like stretching. You know, 272 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:25.920 I keep telling my son, I'm so grateful. You're being stretched. He's like, mom, I can't take 273 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.300 any more stretching. And I'm like, I know I used to joke that I have stretch marks on 274 00:21:30.300 --> 00:21:36.080 my stretch marks. Right? And so but but I'm like, it's like a balloon when it's stretched 275 00:21:36.080 --> 00:21:41.840 because the air going in is like the capacity is increasing. And you're being prepared for 276 00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:47.040 your next season. And you can't get to this next season without the capacity. It's like 277 00:21:47.040 --> 00:21:53.360 weightlifting. You can't get the strength without going through that. It's the way that it works. 278 00:21:53.360 --> 00:21:59.840 And so but it's all based on choosing, choosing our words, choosing our thoughts, choosing our 279 00:21:59.840 --> 00:22:06.320 actions. Right? So I'm going to pick one more. This is the New Living Translation, 280 00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:15.280 just to add to it. So dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, 281 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:25.120 consider it an opportunity for great joy. Consider it again, this is how you frame it. 282 00:22:25.120 --> 00:22:32.720 This is the meaning that you attach. For you know that when your faith is tested, 283 00:22:33.760 --> 00:22:41.440 your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow. For when your endurance is fully developed, 284 00:22:42.080 --> 00:22:52.720 you'll be perfect and complete, needing nothing. This is this is so powerful. And 285 00:22:53.040 --> 00:23:02.480 um, you know, I often listen to David Guillaume. He's a Jewish mystic. It's not all biblical, but 286 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:09.120 I'm able to, you know, eat the peach and spit out the seeds. And but there's enough good that 287 00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:16.080 it really blesses me. And he has always taught me that everything when something hard comes at you, 288 00:23:16.080 --> 00:23:24.720 that you're supposed to pause and say, what a gift. So just conditions yourself to reframe. 289 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:33.120 So as you know, the S is hitting the fan, pause, breathe, and say, what a gift. Well, that's what 290 00:23:33.120 --> 00:23:40.320 that's what Jacob is saying here in this book is like, when this happens, no matter what kind of 291 00:23:40.320 --> 00:23:48.960 trial, choose how you view it, consider, choose to consider it, that it's going to produce joy. 292 00:23:50.800 --> 00:23:58.080 So, you know, here's what I want to emphasize, the trials are not random. They're productive, 293 00:23:58.080 --> 00:24:04.160 they're capacity building, you'll begin to understand, oh, I'm growing my capacity again. 294 00:24:11.040 --> 00:24:17.120 So we're not denying the pain. We're not denying that it feels scary, it feels painful, it feels 295 00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:22.800 hard. We're not pretending, we're not being Pollyanna. There's been a hard journey that 296 00:24:22.800 --> 00:24:27.600 Kim's gone through, it's been a hard journey Christy's gone through, it's been a hard journey 297 00:24:27.600 --> 00:24:36.480 our kids are going through. But we reframe. And it's not that the trial is the gift, it's that 298 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:44.080 what it produces, the harvest, the fruit is the gift. And it's this gift. And, and I said, 299 00:24:44.080 --> 00:24:51.440 I said, son, because we got to talking a little further. And this is not a small manufacturer 300 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:57.760 that he deals with. So they're sending these shirts to places like Tilly's and like to all 301 00:24:57.760 --> 00:24:59.840 these large, I said, you think you 302 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.400 got a problem with your orders, just think for a minute, 303 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:06.760 that manufacturer, that everything 304 00:25:06.760 --> 00:25:11.520 they've said to all of these large companies 305 00:25:11.520 --> 00:25:14.340 are coming back with this problem. 306 00:25:14.340 --> 00:25:15.960 You think you got problems. 307 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:18.040 I said, do you see the capacity? 308 00:25:18.040 --> 00:25:21.440 As you grow, the problems that you can handle get bigger. 309 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:22.160 He goes, yeah. 310 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:24.480 He goes, the stuff that used to take me out in the past 311 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.520 doesn't bother me anymore. 312 00:25:26.560 --> 00:25:31.480 And I said, do you think if Elon Musk, who's 313 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:33.520 gone through so much capacity building, 314 00:25:33.520 --> 00:25:35.200 I'm not talking politics, just what 315 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:37.920 he's gone through as a person. 316 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:42.000 And do you think if he had your problem right now 317 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:45.320 and it's around a few thousand dollars, 318 00:25:45.320 --> 00:25:47.240 do you think he would be stressing right now? 319 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:48.600 It would be taking him out. 320 00:25:48.600 --> 00:25:50.400 It'd be like nothing to him. 321 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.920 It'd be like a little flag, get off me. 322 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:54.800 We got this handled. 323 00:25:54.840 --> 00:25:56.000 That's what happens. 324 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.480 Each time your capacity grows, those trials 325 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:04.280 that used to take you out, they don't bother you anymore 326 00:26:04.280 --> 00:26:07.520 because your capacity has increased. 327 00:26:07.520 --> 00:26:12.760 And so I believe that God is less interested in removing 328 00:26:12.760 --> 00:26:13.800 the trials from us. 329 00:26:13.800 --> 00:26:17.240 We often pray, God, take these trials away. 330 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:21.040 I believe he's more interested in increasing your capacity. 331 00:26:21.040 --> 00:26:23.240 And I believe our prayers, instead of saying, 332 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:25.160 God, please give me more wealth. 333 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:27.120 God, please give me more love. 334 00:26:27.120 --> 00:26:28.400 Please give me a man. 335 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:31.120 Like whatever it is, we should be praying, 336 00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:34.040 please increase my capacity. 337 00:26:34.040 --> 00:26:36.760 And so that's the promise that's in there. 338 00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:39.480 And to say that it takes us to the place 339 00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:43.680 where we're lacking nothing, like that's incredible. 340 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:47.440 When capacity, if I'm going to define capacity, 341 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:53.040 it's what you're able to hold without leaking peace. 342 00:26:53.080 --> 00:26:55.640 Capacity is what you're able to hold. 343 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:58.440 How much abundance can you hold? 344 00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:00.960 You got to understand the more money you have, 345 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:03.720 the greater the trials in a lot of ways, okay? 346 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:08.520 How much abundance can you hold without lacking peace? 347 00:27:08.520 --> 00:27:10.600 How much love can you hold? 348 00:27:10.600 --> 00:27:12.800 How much, you know, serving? 349 00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:15.080 Like how much can you hold? 350 00:27:15.080 --> 00:27:20.080 Money, responsibility, visibility, opportunity, love. 351 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:24.000 And so remember, abundance without capacity, 352 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:27.400 it just creates anxiety, not freedom. 353 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:30.320 Look what happens when the capacity isn't built 354 00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:35.000 and the celebrities come into sudden money. 355 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:36.880 They crash and burn one way or another. 356 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:37.920 They lose the money. 357 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:39.120 They crash emotionally. 358 00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:42.200 They have breakdowns because they didn't have the capacity 359 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:44.960 to hold that level of money in abundance. 360 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.880 Do you see why this is, why truly we can call this joy? 361 00:27:49.800 --> 00:27:52.560 You know, Kim, the patience, the perseverance, 362 00:27:52.560 --> 00:27:57.200 the love, the compassion, all that God has built in you 363 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:01.040 is exactly what's needed for this next season 364 00:28:01.040 --> 00:28:03.520 in your marriage and in your ministry. 365 00:28:03.520 --> 00:28:04.760 And you're going to go back and go, 366 00:28:04.760 --> 00:28:06.440 I'm so glad I went through that. 367 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.920 I would have never been able to do this. 368 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.360 So how powerful, how powerful. 369 00:28:12.360 --> 00:28:17.320 So, you know, what you can hold calmly today, right now, 370 00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:19.000 that's proof of the capacity 371 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.480 that you didn't have five years ago, right? 372 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:22.560 Just think about that. 373 00:28:22.560 --> 00:28:24.720 Think how your capacity has grown. 374 00:28:25.760 --> 00:28:29.480 And, you know, when you take all of the scripture from, 375 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:32.720 from I like, you know, I love to do science 376 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.760 and especially brain science and scripture and strategy. 377 00:28:35.760 --> 00:28:38.280 And so when you take it from brain science 378 00:28:38.280 --> 00:28:40.440 and you understand the vagus nerve 379 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:44.920 and you understand why when it says counted joy, 380 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:49.960 like I choose joy in the midst of this trial, what happens? 381 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:54.400 You see, if we don't do that 382 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:57.160 and we allow ourself to spiral in stress, 383 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:02.040 our cortisol rises, our creativity, the brain downshifts. 384 00:29:02.040 --> 00:29:04.520 Literally, we go into the mammalian brain, 385 00:29:04.520 --> 00:29:07.480 our creativity and ability to think big, 386 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:08.880 you know, just disappears. 387 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.400 Our perspective gets small. 388 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:15.480 But when we respond with peace and trust, 389 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:17.760 and when we count it joy, 390 00:29:17.760 --> 00:29:22.120 the brain stays open and flexible and able to receive 391 00:29:22.120 --> 00:29:25.440 and the problem solving stays intact. 392 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.480 You don't lose that part of your brain 393 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.360 and your discernment increases. 394 00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:33.920 And so, you know, when it says count it all joy, 395 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:35.520 it's not denial, 396 00:29:35.520 --> 00:29:38.960 it's really talking about nervous system regulation. 397 00:29:39.800 --> 00:29:42.800 It's talking about that, right? 398 00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:45.640 And so truly pause. 399 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:46.880 What a gift. 400 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:50.120 Joy is taking spiritual authority over that moment. 401 00:29:51.360 --> 00:29:53.840 Taking spiritual authority over that moment. 402 00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:57.240 Okay, there's a bonus promise to the scripture. 403 00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.960 I deliberately broke it up. 404 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.860 So we read through verse four, okay? 405 00:30:03.860 --> 00:30:08.860 Now, somebody read verse five, James 1, verse five, 406 00:30:10.420 --> 00:30:12.920 and tell us what translation you're reading it in. 407 00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:26.360 James 1, five, Jacob, book of Jacob. 408 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.640 Who's got it? 409 00:30:39.760 --> 00:30:41.680 I can't, is somebody reading and muted 410 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:44.160 or cause I'm not hearing anybody. 411 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.280 Okay, this is the NIV version. 412 00:30:48.280 --> 00:30:49.440 Okay. 413 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.840 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God 414 00:30:53.840 --> 00:30:58.440 who gives generously to all without finding fault 415 00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:02.180 and it will be given to him. 416 00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:03.360 Love that. 417 00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:05.160 So just think about how interesting. 418 00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:08.520 Do you think that that's misplaced, that verse five? 419 00:31:08.520 --> 00:31:10.640 It follows one through four. 420 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:12.960 So we're going through all these trials. 421 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.000 We count it all joy. 422 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.720 It's gonna build this capacity in us. 423 00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:22.720 And the next verse is, you know, you're gonna need wisdom. 424 00:31:22.840 --> 00:31:24.800 That's part of the capacity. 425 00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:26.960 And here's the good news. 426 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.080 If you ask God for wisdom, 427 00:31:29.080 --> 00:31:33.320 he's gonna give it to you lavishly. 428 00:31:33.320 --> 00:31:37.160 Like how amazing James one through four, 429 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:42.160 that when you face any kind of trial, we get to choose. 430 00:31:42.520 --> 00:31:45.240 We get to choose to count it joy 431 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:49.960 because we know that this trial we're going through, 432 00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:52.400 it's going to produce endurance 433 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.240 and persistence and character. 434 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.280 And we know it's gonna increase our capacity 435 00:31:59.280 --> 00:32:01.320 for what God has for us. 436 00:32:01.320 --> 00:32:03.120 And while we're going through that, 437 00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:07.920 we're choosing to pause, say, what a gift, count it joy. 438 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.720 And next verse, verse five, knowing that we have access, 439 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:14.700 that the very source of wisdom, 440 00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:19.240 the creator of the universe who has all wisdom, 441 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:23.000 that we can ask for wisdom and he will give it. 442 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:24.200 He's not gonna judge you. 443 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:25.400 He's not gonna find fault. 444 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.380 He's not gonna find you unworthy. 445 00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:31.400 You ask for wisdom, it says you're gonna get wisdom. 446 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:36.400 What a powerful like sandwich to James chapter one and four 447 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.240 to put that as the bookend. 448 00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:40.480 You lack wisdom. 449 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.480 So it's like these promises within the promise that happens 450 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:49.920 when we go through trials. 451 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:51.480 I love that. 452 00:32:52.360 --> 00:32:56.840 We're emphasizing that wisdom is given lavishly. 453 00:32:56.840 --> 00:33:00.060 There's no shaming, there's no scarcity. 454 00:33:01.320 --> 00:33:03.160 And I want you to contrast this. 455 00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:06.520 When we ask for wisdom, 456 00:33:06.520 --> 00:33:11.520 so we're contrasting ways of handling trials. 457 00:33:12.840 --> 00:33:16.200 I've always said there's two tracks, there's fear and love. 458 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:18.560 In this case, there's really like two tracks. 459 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:21.540 We're all gonna experience trials, 460 00:33:21.540 --> 00:33:23.280 but when you experience trials, 461 00:33:23.280 --> 00:33:25.120 there's two ways to handle it. 462 00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:28.560 One is to count it all joy and say, 463 00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:31.800 God, I don't know what you're doing, but I trust you. 464 00:33:31.800 --> 00:33:33.460 And I'm gonna ask for wisdom 465 00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:36.600 and I'm gonna come through this with even greater capacity. 466 00:33:36.600 --> 00:33:38.280 That's one way of handling it. 467 00:33:38.280 --> 00:33:42.440 The other is to have it just collapse you 468 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.460 and collapse your body, your thinking, your faith. 469 00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:49.940 It's like we get these two ways 470 00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:54.500 that we can go through a challenge. 471 00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:58.340 And when we collapse, 472 00:33:58.340 --> 00:34:01.540 it's usually when we're leaning on our own strength. 473 00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:06.980 It's usually when we're striving 474 00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:10.159 and when we're trying to come up with answers for ourselves. 475 00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:14.300 This intensifies the trial. 476 00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:16.179 Now, God wants us to use our mind 477 00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:18.420 and obviously he wants us to use his wisdom 478 00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:19.699 combined with our mind 479 00:34:19.699 --> 00:34:23.739 and the power of his Holy Spirit combined, right? 480 00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:27.060 But when we try to just solve this myself, 481 00:34:27.060 --> 00:34:28.739 you're gonna come to your breaking point. 482 00:34:28.739 --> 00:34:32.380 You're gonna come to the place that you can't do this. 483 00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:36.179 And that's the place that the power of God comes in, right? 484 00:34:36.179 --> 00:34:39.060 And that's why we can count it joy. 485 00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:43.219 So two ways, and it's all, Kim, you brought it up so well. 486 00:34:43.219 --> 00:34:45.179 It's all in what we choose, 487 00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:50.179 how we choose the meaning we attach to the trial. 488 00:34:52.739 --> 00:34:54.820 We can attach a meaning, a victim. 489 00:34:54.820 --> 00:34:56.880 This stuff always happens to me. 490 00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:58.260 God hates me. 491 00:34:58.260 --> 00:34:59.460 I don't have any strength. 492 00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:00.300 I can't do this. 493 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.040 this anymore, I can't take it anymore. 494 00:35:02.040 --> 00:35:06.000 Like we can attach that meaning with a fruit. 495 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.960 Or we can say, I don't know, trials hit everybody. 496 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:11.800 This is my trial right now. 497 00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:14.920 I'm gonna choose to count it joy. 498 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.800 I'm going to choose to grow my capacity. 499 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:21.140 I'm going to choose to call down wisdom. 500 00:35:21.140 --> 00:35:24.960 And God and I, as co-labors, as a co-heir, 501 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:27.080 as a daughter of the Most High God, 502 00:35:27.080 --> 00:35:29.640 we're coming through this and we're coming through it. 503 00:35:29.640 --> 00:35:32.120 Like that scripture says, lacking nothing. 504 00:35:32.120 --> 00:35:34.880 We're coming through it perfect 505 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:36.240 because of the character produced. 506 00:35:36.240 --> 00:35:38.520 Isn't this an amazing promise? 507 00:35:39.720 --> 00:35:42.960 Isn't this an absolutely amazing promise? 508 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.960 So, you know, as you reflect, 509 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.740 where have you been trying to figure out something 510 00:35:47.740 --> 00:35:49.640 instead of asking for wisdom? 511 00:35:49.640 --> 00:35:52.840 Where have you been leaning on your own strength? 512 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:56.800 So I want you just to think right now for a second 513 00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:59.560 and identify a current trial. 514 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:01.240 What it is. 515 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.600 What's the current trial that you're going through? 516 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:10.320 And pause and intentionally say, 517 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.960 what a gift, I choose to count it joy. 518 00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:20.000 And say in gratitude, thank you, thank you. 519 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.560 Show me what this is growing in me. 520 00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:26.480 And then ask God, 521 00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:29.720 what wisdom do you want to give me here? 522 00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:32.080 What do I need to see that I'm not seeing? 523 00:36:32.080 --> 00:36:35.040 What do I need to know that I don't understand? 524 00:36:36.600 --> 00:36:39.600 And just notice, notice your body's response. 525 00:36:39.600 --> 00:36:41.480 Notice your breathing. 526 00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:43.680 Notice the perspective shift 527 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:49.880 because the capacity grows in how you respond. 528 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:54.360 How you choose to respond is what determines the outcome. 529 00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:57.920 The problem can be the same, two different responses, 530 00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:59.560 two different outcomes. 531 00:36:59.560 --> 00:37:03.900 And so the capacity grows in how we respond, right? 532 00:37:03.900 --> 00:37:06.560 Not how fast the problem goes away. 533 00:37:06.560 --> 00:37:09.400 We just want God just, I don't want any problems. 534 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:11.840 We think that we want a life without problems. 535 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.700 We would never rise to the fullness 536 00:37:14.700 --> 00:37:17.760 of who he created us to be without that. 537 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:22.160 Okay, let's go into prayer 538 00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:24.560 and let's just take turns 539 00:37:24.560 --> 00:37:28.540 and let's just pray this thing out 540 00:37:28.540 --> 00:37:31.280 and pray this thing in. 541 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.280 And I'm just super excited what God is doing here. 542 00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:41.460 So anybody can start and I will close out the prayer. 543 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.280 And if you want to come on camera, 544 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:49.180 I know some of you are at work and you can't, 545 00:37:49.180 --> 00:37:51.680 but if you want to come on camera 546 00:37:52.520 --> 00:37:55.120 where we can see more of you as we're praying, 547 00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:57.760 go ahead, jump on. 548 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:01.400 And well, it looks like most of you can't 549 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:03.000 because you're working or driving. 550 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:05.920 So, okay, I won't do that then. 551 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.200 All right, whoever wants to pray first, just go ahead. 552 00:38:09.200 --> 00:38:10.040 Go ahead. 553 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.120 Make sure you're unmuted 554 00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:24.000 and you're not praying only to yourself. 555 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.560 I mean, God hears it, but we want to hear too. 556 00:38:26.560 --> 00:38:30.060 Father, I just thank you for this time together. 557 00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:35.360 And this hour that we come together, 558 00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:40.360 we unite in uniform to honor you, Father, 559 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:51.800 to honor you and to glorify all that you know 560 00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:55.720 of each of us and the blessings to come, Father. 561 00:38:55.720 --> 00:38:59.840 In our prayer requests for each and our individual, 562 00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:02.520 our individual selves and our families, Lord, 563 00:39:03.520 --> 00:39:07.520 we're just so thankful that you have brought us 564 00:39:07.520 --> 00:39:11.880 to this day, time, and the moments 565 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:16.880 that we can know that the trials are truly your gifts 566 00:39:17.180 --> 00:39:22.180 to expand us, to solidify your strength in us, Lord, 567 00:39:24.540 --> 00:39:29.540 and allow us the choice to choose you, Father. 568 00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:32.420 And we just thank you for each and every one 569 00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:35.360 of these strong women, Father, 570 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:38.580 and the capacity that they hold, Father, 571 00:39:38.580 --> 00:39:42.340 for their children and their children's children, Lord, 572 00:39:43.220 --> 00:39:46.420 in the areas of overwhelm and health 573 00:39:46.420 --> 00:39:51.100 and just practical everyday life 574 00:39:51.100 --> 00:39:54.860 and many times the chaos of what the world brings, Father. 575 00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:58.860 We just thank you for positive and- 576 00:39:58.860 --> 00:39:59.700 How you doing? 577 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:11.680 and the negative of test results for applied therapies, Lord, for healing of grandchildren 578 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:19.760 and children in all areas of health, Lord. Lord, we pray and thank you that we become 579 00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:28.000 capacity builders for your kingdom, that joy, peace, love, understanding, all of the fruits 580 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:36.640 of the Spirit, Lord, are so instilled upon us in every child that we can remember at the moment 581 00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:44.720 to just pause, to breathe and just say, Lord, thank you for this gift. What's next, Lord? 582 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:52.240 Lord, I ask for the week ahead and beyond that we each pray in war room style, Father, 583 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:59.760 that we take back our authority and that we let our voice be heard, Father God, 584 00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:05.840 because we know that you are the mover of mountains and that you have instilled within 585 00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:12.560 us the strength to do the same, God. I pray for Brenda and her own strength, Lord, 586 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:22.000 that she continues not only to fill her capacity, but to each and every woman that she so graciously 587 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:29.520 serves, Father, and for Natalie and her travels, Lord. I just thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord, 588 00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:36.800 for your many blessings. We thank you for the praise reports that will come to us next week 589 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:44.960 this time. We thank you for the lessons, Lord, and we thank you for your sovereigns over each 590 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:53.520 and every one of your created daughters and sons, fathers, and family that we have 591 00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:59.520 together and separate, Father. We just thank you, thank you, thank you. 592 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:15.460 you 593 00:42:44.960 --> 00:43:08.800 Lord, we just thank you. We thank you for all the promises in Scripture 594 00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:20.640 and this promise, that even the hard things, even the trials, that even those in your sight, 595 00:43:22.720 --> 00:43:30.560 Romans 8, 28, work together for good. Even the hard things you're using actually 596 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:35.440 to increase our joy, increase our character, increase our capacity, 597 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:45.680 to prepare us for the next season. Truly, what a gift. Teach us to change our perspective, Lord. 598 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:56.080 Lord, this week I continue to lift up all the prayer requests that were brought up 599 00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:04.240 at the start of this call. I lift up Kim's mom for a smooth transition 600 00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:14.640 and a new season for Kim and her ministry and her marriage. I lift up a charless son, Austin, 601 00:44:14.640 --> 00:44:20.480 and little Adelita, Lord, for continued healing and for financial provision for all of her 602 00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:28.880 children, for all of our children, for a lens wrist, Lord, for healing that you'll bring 603 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:37.760 your healing power to that wrist, whether you're using a person or a tool or a device 604 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:46.240 or just straight power from heaven. I pray that this week there will be a turning, a breakthrough 605 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:55.360 in the healing of this wrist and we touch and we agree in Jesus' name to be pain-free, to be mobile, 606 00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:59.440 to be even better than it was before. 607 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.880 And we continue to lift up Christy, 608 00:45:03.880 --> 00:45:06.440 that she will be completely cancer free 609 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.960 in the testimony of your grace to the world. 610 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:11.800 We lift up my son, Derek, 611 00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:14.280 to work through these challenges with courage 612 00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:18.240 and increase his capacity and for provision. 613 00:45:18.240 --> 00:45:22.180 We lift up Natalie as she goes to Africa for safe travels 614 00:45:22.180 --> 00:45:24.680 and to be the blessing that she is. 615 00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:29.680 And we lift up her children, her oldest son, Lord, 616 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:35.480 as he's looking for this job, Anthony and for Bruce, 617 00:45:35.520 --> 00:45:38.200 as he goes through the surgery on Friday, Lord, 618 00:45:38.200 --> 00:45:41.000 that the pain will finally be gone 619 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.480 and he will step into what he loves to do 620 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:46.880 and what he's gifted to do. 621 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:50.480 And Lord, I just thank you for every one of my sisters. 622 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:52.480 I thank you for the gift of this call 623 00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:53.680 and this coming together, 624 00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:57.240 the gift of Zoom that we can gather like this. 625 00:45:57.240 --> 00:46:02.240 And Lord, I just pray for a special blessing 626 00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:05.160 and anointing on each one of my sisters. 627 00:46:05.160 --> 00:46:07.800 Prosper every one of them physically, 628 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:11.080 financially, relationally, spiritually, Lord. 629 00:46:11.080 --> 00:46:14.340 I pray you bless the work of their hands. 630 00:46:14.340 --> 00:46:17.880 And I pray blessings on their family, 631 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:19.760 their children, their grandchildren. 632 00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:23.640 I pray blessings on their finances and businesses. 633 00:46:23.640 --> 00:46:27.320 I pray blessings on their health and their body. 634 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:32.240 Lord God, I pray that they prosper in all things. 635 00:46:32.240 --> 00:46:37.240 In Jesus' name, amen, amen, amen. 636 00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:42.100 Well, ladies, I've so enjoyed this time. 637 00:46:42.100 --> 00:46:45.860 Thank you for being part of the Prosper Power Hour. 638 00:46:45.860 --> 00:46:49.280 If you're listening to this somehow 639 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.120 and you aren't familiar with the Prosper Power Hour, 640 00:46:52.120 --> 00:46:57.120 we meet every Wednesday at 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. 641 00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:02.280 It's part of the Prosper Leader membership. 642 00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:05.960 And we would love to have you be in that membership. 643 00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.240 I'm running a special right now. 644 00:47:08.240 --> 00:47:13.160 And you can get that by going to be like bit, 645 00:47:13.160 --> 00:47:18.160 like horse's bit, bit.ly forward slash Prosper Leader. 646 00:47:18.680 --> 00:47:23.120 And the P and the L are capitalized. 647 00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:27.760 So bit.ly forward slash Prosper Leader. 648 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.600 Join us Wednesdays for the Power Hour, 649 00:47:30.600 --> 00:47:32.600 Thursdays for office hours. 650 00:47:32.600 --> 00:47:36.920 Office hours are when we really do the systems 651 00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:38.840 and the strategies to grow your business. 652 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.360 And we've got some amazing momentum going on 653 00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:44.520 in women's businesses right now. 654 00:47:44.520 --> 00:47:48.480 It's incredible what God is doing in this season. 655 00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:50.240 Those of you have probably seen, 656 00:47:50.240 --> 00:47:52.840 if you're listening in live time this Saturday, 657 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.680 Valentine's Day, I'm doing a masterclass. 658 00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:57.400 You definitely want to join that. 659 00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:58.680 It's free. 660 00:47:58.680 --> 00:48:01.960 It's called Multiply Without Striving. 661 00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:05.520 And so make sure that you are there for that. 662 00:48:05.520 --> 00:48:10.080 And I will see you same time, same place next week. 663 00:48:10.080 --> 00:48:12.120 Lots of love to my sisters. 664 00:48:12.120 --> 00:48:13.020 Take care. 665 00:48:13.020 --> 00:48:14.780 Safe travels, Natalie. 666 00:48:14.780 --> 00:48:15.740 Blessings, blessings. 667 00:48:15.740 --> 00:48:16.900 I muted you, Natalie, 668 00:48:16.900 --> 00:48:18.820 because there was noise in the background. 669 00:48:18.820 --> 00:48:20.500 Okay, lots of love. 670 00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:21.340 Bye.